New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) assured reporters that President Trump’s upcoming rally in the state could be pulled off safely and without a mandatory mask order, even as he was unlikely to attend himself, CNN reports.
Ex-Senator Warns of ‘Coming Biden Coup’
Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) offers a conspiracy theory in The Hill in which he warns of a “coup” in which “socialist” and “far left” figures in the Democratic party install a running mate for Joe Biden and then use the 25th Amendment to topple Biden.
Trump Says He’ll Pressure Governors to Open Schools
President Trump said the White House would put pressure on governors to get schools opened in the fall amid rising coronavirus cases in the United States, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “We don’t want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons. They think it’s going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed. No way.”
Trump ‘Going With His Gut’ In Fanning Racism
“Multiple White House officials are privately expressing frustration over President Trump’s recent embrace of a message stoking racial and cultural divisions,” NBC News reports.
“Some Trump allies are telling him that he has a better argument to make and to focus on his accomplishments in office and offer sharp criticism of his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.”
“But Trump — four months away from facing voters in his re-election bid and trailing Biden in the polls — is ‘going with his gut’ and ‘relying on instinct,’ as two officials put it.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“I’m strongly in favor of mandating things. If you do that, I think it’ll be a giant step towards interfering with the spread in the community.”
— Dr. Anthony Fauci, quoted by Bloomberg Law, on mandating face masks across the country.
Biden Still Holds Wide Lead Nationally
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race by double-digits nationally, 53% to 42%.
Trump’s approval rate is 42% to 54%.
Another Book Is Coming
President Trump was photographed putting a card in his jacket with the name “Bob Woodward” on it, CNN reports.
Trump has reportedly spoken with Woodward for several hours ahead of his new book on the Trump White House, scheduled to be published in September. Trump was irritated he wasn’t told about Woodward’s attempts to interview him for the last book.
Loeffler Opposes ‘Black Lives Matter’ Warmup Jerseys
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), a co-owner of Atlanta’s WNBA franchise, objected to the league’s plans to honor the Black Lives Matter movement, warning that subscribing to a “particular political agenda undermines the potential of the sport and sends a message of exclusion,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
‘It Didn’t Work’
Jacob Soboroff writes in his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, that Katie Miller, former spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security and wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, told him she was sent to the southern border to see the plight of migrant families, The Week reports.
Said Miller: “Family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think about the separations differently. But I don’t think so… DHS sent me to the border to see the separations for myself — to try to make me more compassionate — but it didn’t work.”
- Hardcover Book
- Soboroff, Jacob (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 416 Pages - 07/07/2020 (Publication Date) - Mariner Books (Publisher)
The White House Response to Mary Trump’s Book
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had an interesting take on Mary Trump’s explosive new tell-all book: “I have yet to see the book, but it is a book of falsehoods.”
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Mary Trump Claims Trump Praised Her Breasts
The Daily Beast recounts a particularly disturbing scene from Mary Trump’s new tell-all book in which Donald Trump’s niece recounts how when she was 29 and wearing a bathing suit and a pair of shorts to lunch at the resort, her uncle looked up at her and remarked, “Holy shit, Mary. You’re stacked.”
Writes Ms. Trump: “I was twenty-nine and not easily embarrassed, but my face reddened, and I suddenly felt self-conscious. I pulled my towel around my shoulders. It occurred to me that nobody in my family, outside of my parents and brother, had ever seen me in a bathing suit.”
U.S. Exits the World Health Organization
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, told CNN that the Trump administration has informed Congress that the president has officially pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization during the middle of a global pandemic.
Melania and Me
The new tell-all book we noted yesterday is now available for pre-order: Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
Vanity Fair says the book details the author’s 15-year-long friendship with the First Lady that culminated in her ousting after she helped plan the inauguration and served in the East Wing.
- Hardcover Book
- Winston Wolkoff, Stephanie (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 09/01/2020 (Publication Date) - Gallery Books (Publisher)
They’re All Talking About You
A new Lincoln Project ad suggests Donald Trump can’t trust his campaign, his staff, or even his family.
Karl Rove Says Trump Not Helping Himself
Karl Rove expressed frustration with Donald Trump’s erratic messaging, arguing on Fox News that a recent pair of incendiary tweets represented yet another act of self-sabotage.
Said Rove: “The president has a limited number of days between now and the election. And when he tweets, it’s a powerful message. And the question is, does that message continue to advance the narrative that he and those around him decided that he would lay out on at Mount Rushmore? And the answer is no, it didn’t.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Honest work was never demanded of him, and no matter how badly he failed, he was rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable. He continues to be protected from his own disasters in the White House. But now the stakes are far higher than they’ve ever been before; they are literally life and death. Unlike any previous time in his life, Donald’s failings cannot be hidden or ignored because they threaten us all.”
— Mary Trump, writing about Donald Trump in Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
How Mary Trump Leaked Family Tax Documents
Mary Trump tells the story in her new tell-all of how she secretly gave the New York Times much of the source material for its 14,000 word investigation of how President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes, according to Axios.
At 3:00, I drove to the loading dock beneath the building, and nineteen boxes were loaded into the back of the borrowed truck I was driving since I couldn’t work the clutch in my own car.
It was just beginning to get dark when I pulled into my driveway. The three reporters were waiting for me in David’s white SUV, which sported a pair of reindeer antlers and a huge red nose wired to the grill.
When I showed them the boxes, there were hugs all around. It was the happiest I’d felt in months.